Texlive packaging

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 28 March 2015 at 15:07, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
<paulo.cesar.pereira.de.andrade at gmail.com> wrote:
>   I maintained a slowly evolving approach in Mandriva for some years,
> (but now it is quickly approaching one year I left Mandriva...), see the
> main script at
> https://abf.rosalinux.ru/openmandriva/texlive-tlpkg/blob/master/tlpobj2spec.pl
> It uses the texlive perl modules to do most of the work, and only does
> some filtering on contents, choosing %doc (what texlive calls doc
> and source), extracting dependencies or license information, %post
> scripts, etc.
>

This looks really handy. I wonder though about the need to really have
one RPM per texlive package.Would it not be a reasonable middle ground
to generate one SRPM per texlive collection?

[snip]

>   It is quite a lot of work, so, it would be better to have a SIG and
> not let only one person handle all packages.
>

I would be interested in joining such a SIG and effort.

Jonathan